Review the supported zone configurations before using Oracle Solaris
Live Upgrade to migrate or upgrade a system with zones.

Migrate a UFS root file system to
a ZFS root file system – The following configurations of
zone roots are supported:

In a directory in the UFS root file system

In a subdirectory of a mount point in the UFS root file system

UFS root file system with a zone root in a UFS root file system
directory or in a subdirectory of a UFS root file system mount point and a
ZFS non-root pool with a zone root

The following UFS/zone configuration is not supported: UFS root file
system that has a zone root as a mount point.

Migrate or upgrade a ZFS root file
system – The following configurations of zone roots are supported:

In a dataset in the ZFS root pool. In some cases, if a dataset
for the zone root is not provided before the Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade operation,
a dataset for the zone root (zoneds) will be created by
Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade.

In a subdirectory of the ZFS root file system

In a dataset outside of the ZFS root file system

In a subdirectory of a dataset outside of the ZFS root file
system

In a dataset in a non root pool. In the following example, zonepool/zones is a dataset that contains the zone roots, and rpool contains the ZFS BE: